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Keeping its Value

Hi All - I’m thinking of purchasing a 1967 splitie but the engine inside is from a Sabaru - all the rest of the van is of genuine parts and stunning. Would this make a significant difference to value when I sell it? If so any ideas how much an original engine would be to bring it all back to original? Thanks for any advise

Dark was that day when Diesel conceived his grim engine that begot you, vile invention, more vicious, more criminal than the camera even, metallic monstrosity, bale and bane of our culture, chief woe of our Commonweal. How dare the Law prohibit hashish and heroin yet license your use, who inflate all weak inferior egos? Their addicts only do harm to their own lives: you poison the lungs of the innocent, your din dithers the peaceful, and on choked roads hundreds must daily die by chance-medley. Nimble technicians, surely you should hang your heads in shame. Your wit works mighty wonders, has landed men on the Moon, replaced brains by computers, and can smithy a "smart" bomb. It is a crying scandal that you cannot take the time or be bothered to build us, what sanity knows we need, an odorless and noiseless staid little electric brougham.

If it has a Subaru water cooled unit fitted you are going to need more than just a recon engine, you will need EVERYTHING which you can’t just buy off the shelf as a built unit and as you dig deeper and open the metaphorical can, you will expose the hypothetical worms, that is to say whatever a really experienced T1 restorer listed down on a thorough visual inspection would be the tip of the proverbial iceberg, so to speak. All the parts you need are available at a cost but the list will be huge and it will not be one list, rather a series of lists. If the vehicle is a valuable model such as a Westfalia camper or multi window Kombi and the structure sound it could be worth it as really top notch late T1’s can hit £40k but building a convincing “B” code engine as fitted to the 67 from scratch could cost £5k just in parts. I rebuilt a B in a 1970 Ghia a few years back and that cost £3.5k and I had an original installation to work from, you will have nothing!

Dark was that day when Diesel conceived his grim engine that begot you, vile invention, more vicious, more criminal than the camera even, metallic monstrosity, bale and bane of our culture, chief woe of our Commonweal. How dare the Law prohibit hashish and heroin yet license your use, who inflate all weak inferior egos? Their addicts only do harm to their own lives: you poison the lungs of the innocent, your din dithers the peaceful, and on choked roads hundreds must daily die by chance-medley. Nimble technicians, surely you should hang your heads in shame. Your wit works mighty wonders, has landed men on the Moon, replaced brains by computers, and can smithy a "smart" bomb. It is a crying scandal that you cannot take the time or be bothered to build us, what sanity knows we need, an odorless and noiseless staid little electric brougham.